Worcester Art Museum

With the hotpots, we can look more closely at the details of the Worcester Wedding Kimono. Click on the hotspots to learn more. 

Creating the Worcester Wedding Kimono - A New Work of Art for the Museum

The Worcester Art Museum’s collection of arms and armor is the second largest in the United States. The Museum has over 1,500 works in the armor collection. Do suits of armor seem like works that an art museum would have on display? Look at these parts of the Teuffenbach armor and think of how you might think of the objects as works of art.

Armor as Art: The Teuffenbach Armor

How fast can you escape the Worcester Art Museum's Arms and Armor exhibit? Look and click on the different works from the medieval period to find out. Will you gain a victorious win and escape? Or, will you be a fallen hero who brings dishonor to their kingdom? Come and play to find out!

Teuffenbach Escape Room!

There are many portraits at the Worcester Art Museum. We will look at two portraits to see what we might learn from them.

Portraits

About 20 people are involved with making the design  Can take 6-12 month to make  7,000-14,0000 The price depends on the amount of work done  Most craftsman are in their 60s and 60s 

Steps to making a Kimono

Students often read about ancient times at school. It can be difficult to picture how people lived during this time period. Seeing ancient objects at a Museum can help you to picture how people lived in the past.

What Can We Learn from Ancient Art?

The Worcester Art Museum is located in central Massachusetts. It is a museum where people come to see works of art from all over the world and from all different time periods. 

What is an Art Museum?

How do labels help visitors learn about works of art?

Labels at the Worcester Art Museum

Come explore the works from around the world that will be featured in the following activities. Click on the hotspots to learn more about each work and its corresponding Visual Thinking Strategy activity. 

Art World Map

The Worcester Art Museum's exhibitions tell global stories—from art made thousands of years ago to works being created today. The Museum’s collection has over 38,000 objects, collected since the Museum opened in 1898. Students will examine a sampling of artworks from different time periods and places. They will learn more about how artworks come to a Museum, how they were created, and how they can explore and learn from them.

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The Arts

Hydria: Gathering water in ancient Greece

Hygieia, Health and Handwashing

Greek houses were filled with painted pottery of many different shapes and sizes: dinner plates, wine cups, pitchers, storage jars, oil flasks, perfume jars. We can learn about life and customs from the painted scenes on Greek pottery because thousands have survived. 

A hydria is a vessel used for carrying water from the public fountain house. The scenes around the shoulder of this vase represent the chase of young women by a beardless youth wrapped only in a cloak and carrying two spears. He may be the hero Theseus. An older bearded man, perhaps the girls' father, stands nearby. The energetic chase may suggest the dangers of going unaccompanied to the fountains.

Hydria-Theseus pursuing a woman. Red-figured.

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Water Jar (Hydria): Theseus Pursuing Women

Hygieia was the Goddess of Health in Greek mythology. The Worcester Art Museum has this ancient sculpture of Hygieia. From her name, we have the word hygiene, which are the steps people take to stay clean and healthy.

Excavated at Antioch-on-the-Orontes, this is probably a later copy of a Hellenistic original made at Pergamon, Asia Minor, in the 2nd century BC. Hygeia is usually represented holding a serpent, symbol of health. Parts of a serpent may still be seen on the preserved portion of the right forearm and below the left breast.

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Hygieia, Goddess of Health

The Worcester Art Museum's sculpture was excavated, or removed from the earth in 1936.  She was found in one of the public baths from Antioch-on-the-Orontes.

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What Can We Learn from Ancient Art?

Background Knowledge

Ancient Greek Objects